ENGINEERING STUDENT

Chennai: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes for renewable energy, four engineering students in Chennai have invented a solar-powered scooter. The idea behind the eco-friendly scooter is to reduce people's dependence on fossil fuels.
Sharath Rajan, student at SA Engineering College, said, "Nowadays many of us are using petrol...

Hyderabad: A 19-year-old engineering student was allegedly raped by an autorickshaw driver at an isolated area on city outskirts in adjoining Ranga Reddy district on Tuesday, police said.
The offence occurred between 10.30 AM and 11 AM when the girl, a first year BTech student, who is known to autorickshaw driver...

An engineering student has been arrested for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 23yearold woman software engineer by making an obscene video clip of her, police said.
Rishabh Katodia (25), a civil engineering student who belongs to Bhavnagar in Gujarat, was arrested on Sunday after a written complaint was filed by the...

Mandi: A body, recovered from the Beas river, was identified as that of an engineering student from Hyderabad who was among 25 persons swept away in the river two weeks back.
The bloated body which surfaced and was fished out on Sunday, was deformed and could not be identified on Sunday....

Chandigarh: Engineering students from Hyderabad died due to the negligence of Larji Dam authority, the Himachal Pradesh(HP) government has admitted before the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
The HP government filed a fresh report in the high court and confirmed the negligence on the part of Larji Dam authorities in...

Mandi: Two more bodies of engineering students from Hyderabad were retrieved on Thursday from the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh as the search operations gained momentum with 15 Indian Navy divers helping out.
The victims were identified as T Upendra and Gomoor Arvind Kumar by their parents, Superintendent of Police Mandi...

A 17yearold girl was allegedly raped by an engineering student in his hostel room in Dadabari police station area of the city, police said on Saturday.
The victim has alleged in her complaint that she was raped by the accused on April 18, who took her to his hostel room, SHO...

New Delhi: Of the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested in Rajasthan earlier this week, three are engineering students, police sources revealed on Thursday, hinting that educated youth were on the terror organisation's radar.
"Their interrogation has revealed that the Indian Mujahideen is planning to induct educated youth with a technical...

The Vice-Chancellor, pro Vice-Chancellor and registrar of Jadavpur University were freed by the Students on Friday after 50-hours of gherao. The students were protesting against the suspension of two engineering students on the charges of ragging. The students were demanding that the punishment meted out to the two students be...

As many as 10 engineering students have been booked for ragging a first-year student, officials said on Friday.
The case was lodged nearly a week after engineering student Raj Aryan left the engineering college in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district following harassment and physical abuse in the guise of ragging by seniors, officials...

An 18-year-old student of an engineering college was found hanging inside his hostel room in Vijay Nagar area in Ghaziabad. The body of Narender Pratap Singh was found hanging from the ceiling fan inside his hostel room by hostel warden Mohit Kumar.
"When Kumar was checking all hostel rooms on Sunday...

Mumbai: Mumbai Police is likely to arrest one of the two accused named by 19yearold engineering student Nitin Padalkar in his suicide note. Nitin had alleged that he was driven to suicide by the two boys who ragged him continuously.
The inquiry report from his college is expected to be...

Idduki: Five engineering students died on Monday after a bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge. The accident took place in the hilly Idukki district of Kerala.
The students were part of a group returning from an excursion to Tamil Nadu. All the students are from Sarabhai Institute of...

New Delhi: A first-year male student of a private engineering college in Gurgaon remains critical in the ICU after he was found drugged and unconscious with multiple injuries outside the college premises. The student is a resident of Delhi.
His classmates allege that some seniors may have beaten him up....

Srivilliputhur: An engineering student in Tamil Nadu has claimed to have developed an electronic device that could help girls to protect themselves from molesters by benumbing the attacker temporarily.
Resembling a hair clip or mobile cover, the "Ladies safety shocker", designed by second year Mechanical Engineering student VR Manikandan of private...

Hyderabad: An engineering student, allegedly committed suicide for the cause of a separate Telangana state at Pavanpuri Colony in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the police said. The body of N Dinesh Chandra, a thirdyear B Tech student in a private college, was found hanging in his room they said, adding that...

Kurukshetra: In another shocking incident of crime against women, a man raped his classmate at an engineering college at Kurukshetra, Haryana. This even as the protesters in Delhi continue their vigil for a safer environment for women across the nation.
The incident took place on Friday, but a case was registered...

Kanpur: The body of a 22yearold engineering student was found along the railway tracks near Rajshree Nagar highway here, police said on Friday.
Body of Rajat Sachan, a firstyear engineering student at a private college here, was found along the KanpurFarukhabad track yesterday, they said.
A resident of Raebareli district, Rajat had...

Srikakulam: A girl was allegedly molested and her boyfriend beaten up by two miscreants on Bhavanapadu beach near Srikakulam two days ago, police said.
The victims, both students of an engineering college near Tekkali, had gone for an outing on the beach on Saturday evening when two miscreants objected to them...

Chennai: If you are a candidate about to appear for the engineering counselling session beginning Friday, this is an advice best followed. The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions officials are warning students against falling into the trap of dubious consultants, who appear every year at the counselling centre during the admission...

Lucknow: Police have busted a gang of vehicle thieves headed by an engineering student in Uttar Pradesh.
The gang used to lift luxury cars from Noida, adjoining Delhi, and sell them in Gorakhpur and Bihar, a police official said on Saturday.
A Honda City car was seized from the student.
The police stumbled...

New Delhi: An engineering institute's director and teacher, accused of abetting a student's suicide in 2005, were discharged by a Delhi court due to lack of evidence to make them face trial.
Harsh Khatri, a student of mechanical and automation engineering at Amity School of Engineering and Technology in west Delhi's...

Coimbatore: In what should serve as a wakeup call to the state's education system, a nationallevel assessment has placed Tamil Nadu's engineering graduates as 'least employable'.
The recently released National Employability Report (NER) 2011, compiled by a private employability assessment company 'Aspiring Minds', says only 10 per cent of engineering...

Hisar (Haryana): A second year mechanical engineering student of a private college here was killed on Monday allegedly by two of his batchmates who had developed an animosity towards him because he was a class topper despite coming from a poor family.
Pradeep Kumar (20) was shot dead near the gate...

Hyderabad: A 20yearold female engineering student was bludgeoned to death allegedly by her senior at his residence in Vanasthalipuram here, police said on Monday.
The incident took place last night when accused Sekhar delivered multiple blows smashing the victim's head with a baseball bat in his flat at Hill Colony,...

Kurukshetra: Tragedy struck the family of 28year old Satwinder Singh when he killed himself by jumping in front of a running train. His suicide note blames seven seniors of a Mumbaibased Advanced Training Institute, where he was a student, for harassing him for the past 3 months.
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Chennai: The Annamalai University has been shut indefinitely following the death of four north Indian students. Tension gripped the campus since Sunday after students protested negligence on part of authorities and blamed them for the deaths.
Tensions gripped Annamalai University in Chidambaram since Sunday, following the death of Gautam Kumar,...

Raipur: Three people including a National Institute of Technology (NIT) girl student and her boy friend have been arrested for their involvement in the looting of Rs 2 million in the Chhattisgarh capital on Tuesday, police said on Sunday.
"We have cracked the Rs 2 million Raipur loot case with the...

Hyderabad: Two days before tennis star Sania Mirza's engagement, a youth who claims to be in love with her was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly creating nuisance at her residence in Hyderabad.
Police said Mohammed Ashraf, 28, late on Tuesday created a scene at the player's residence claiming that he is...

Gurgaon: Police in Gurgaon have arrested four engineering students for stealing a car at gunpoint. They are not hardened criminals or serial offenders, but came out to help a friend in need. Surprisingly, all four are from good families.
One of the accused, Sandip says, "All my friends did this only...